Elizabeth Nolan Brown via Reason.com: Malaysian authorities are saying thanks, but no thanks to an international Love and Sex With Robots symposium that was scheduled to be held there. “It’s not our culture,” said…

This essay originally appeared on Philosophical Disquisitions. (Previous Entry) There is no denying that improvements in technology allow machines to perform tasks that were once performed best by humans. This is at…

Self-driving cars aren’t the only emerging technology facing major questions about ethics and accountability. Jerry Kaplan’s latest book is “Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age…

Ronald C. Arken via IEEE Spectrum: This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. This article contains excerpts…

Via John Judis at National Journal: Ever since General Electric installed the first industrial robot in 1961, Americans have been worrying that automation could destroy the country’s labor force. During the Great…

[Editor’s Note: This article may contain spoilers.] Most of the time, I couldn’t care less about a computer’s feelings. I distrust them, frequently cuss at them, and occasionally smash them to pieces….

Bernard Meyerson via Business Insider: Technology is perhaps the greatest agent of change in the modern world. While never without risk, technological breakthroughs promise innovative solutions to the most pressing global challenges…

In ten years, how will the machines that run your daily existence respond when confronted with life-or-death decisions? Matthieu Cherubini at the Royal College of Art offers prototypes of Humanist, Protector, and Profit-Based moral parameters for self-driving cars:

Many car manufacturers are projecting that by 2025 most cars will operate on driveless systems. How can such systems be designed to accommodate the complicatedness of ethical and moral reasoning? Just like choosing the color of a car, ethics can become a commodified feature in autonomous vehicles that one can buy, change, and repurchase, depending on personal taste.

Three distinct algorithms have been created – each adhering to a specific ethical principle/behaviour set-up – and embedded into driverless virtual cars that are operating in a simulated environment, where they will be confronted with ethical dilemmas.